"Disrobe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... underrate the magnitude of the work performed, nor attribute to those who have been the agents in disbursing these unparalleled benefactions motives other than of the purest and loftiest, in a majority of cases; but I think the time has arrived when we may disrobe the matter of the romance which writers have industriously woven about it. In the early stages of the work a few men and women of large fortunes, who had been "born with a silver spoon in their mouths," may have gone South to labor for humanity and the Master, may ...
— Black and White - Land, Labor, and Politics in the South • Timothy Thomas Fortune
... and Southern States will acquaint a Northerner with strange customs. To find an entire household occupying a single large room is not an unfrequent occurrence. The rules of politeness require that, when bedtime has arrived, the men shall go out of doors to contemplate the stars, while the ladies disrobe and retire. The men then return and proceed to bed. Sometimes the ladies amuse themselves by studying the fire while the men find their way to their couches, where they gallantly turn their faces to the wall, and permit the ladies to don their ...
— Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field • Thomas W. Knox
... a little parleying Bilh Ahati{COMBINING BREVE}ni assented. He was told to disrobe, and doing so Ganaskidi breathed upon him, and his raiment became the same as that of the gods. Then all took four steps eastward, changing into mountain sheep, and bounded away ...
— The North American Indian • Edward S. Curtis |
